DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland’s leaders say they want to tear down the socalled “peace lines” of Belfast — dozens of walls that divide Irish Catholic and British Protestant neighborhoods — by 2023.
The Catholic-Protestant government unveiled the goal Thursday as part of wider plans to reduce divisions in what remains a profoundly polarized society. The leaders stressed that no security barriers would be dismantled until people living on both sides felt comfortable with the move. They conceded this could take years of patient community work.
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